Carl Sagan had V1 look back at the Earth from far out into the solar system and take a picture of us - the Pale Blue Dot suspended in a sunbeam.
Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away, and approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, when it captured this portrait of our world. Caught in the center of scattered light rays (a result of taking the picture so close to the Sun), Earth appears as a tiny point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size.
Voyager 1 also carries a gold record detailing much about our species and location. I'm not so sure that was a good idea.
Anyway, here is V1 looking out into interstellar space. It will have plenty of time to think before it encounters any physical object.
It is noted that V1 is 19 light hours from Earth. That is 12,741,715,958.3 miles.
Click the pic for more information, but of course.
Wait ... so you didn't get any liberals on the Voyager before it was launched???
ReplyDeleteMustang, No libs. Course back then there were no libs, just confused hippies.
DeleteWell, Jersey Jack and me are trying to nominate you for the medal of freedom, but if you aren't going to dispatch leftists into outer-space, I can't see where that will be possible.
DeleteMustang, Can you at least get a million people to subscribe to my youtube channel? I understand there is big money there.
DeletePS, I don't wanna be in the same club as baba striesand anyway.
DeleteWell? If there are no libs, is it too late for me to catch this ride?
ReplyDeleteDaBlade, that depends on whether your EM Drive actually works.
DeleteDaBlade: There might be a Uber you can catch...
DeleteI wonder which POTUS's picture is on that gold record.
ReplyDeleteAnd what else, too.
Launched in 1977, I think. The POTUS was Jimmy Peanut.
ReplyDeleteAOW, the wiki link for the gold record is in the post, ut there it just says "a range of scientific information. More information but not all can be found here.
DeletePPS, I like "jimmy peanut". Sure had the brain of a peanut.
DeleteAOW, the record contains our location and enough biological information to allow the aliens to send a biological agent to wipe out the planet. Scientists are such dorks.
ReplyDeleteKid,
Deleteenough biological information to allow the aliens to send a biological agent to wipe out the planet
Sheesh. That's really stupid.
AOW, Even just our location.. Assuming Aliens would expend such resources to come here and help a bunch of primitive buffoons like us is absurd.
DeleteThat's something even Stephen Hawking understands.
DeleteIn other words, the NSA sent into space all of our cell phone numbers, our social security numbers, our drivers' license numbers, home addresses, how much we earned in a year, and a record of our conversations? Damn.
DeleteThat's right Mustang. That giant sucking sound will be all of our assets being beamed to the AlScamodopolous system. Just when I'm getting for retirement !!!
DeleteAnd nothing worse than Greek aliens if ya know what I mean.
Unless there's such a thing as an Alien Peace Corps, we're out of luck.
DeleteCube, No alien peace corps. I checked.
DeleteAs long as VGER doesn't come back....
ReplyDeleteED, WE definitely don't want VGER coming back, especially with enhancements.
DeleteLet's introduce VGER to Kim Jong Un-acceptable-as-leader. It wouldn't take long.
DeleteCube,
DeleteGood idea!
Cube, Oh yea, kimmy meets VGER. Perfect.
DeleteKimmie can't even piss his own pants by himself, i.e., he's no Captain Kirk.
DeleteCube, I suspect that's right. Kimmie has everyone else doing stuff. Under the fear of death.
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